James W. Taylor, M.A.

James W. Taylor, M.A. is a member of the Society for American
Archaeology, an
NSF IGERT Fellow, and a multiple recipient of rewards
from
the
Mary Gates Endowment.
A majority of his interest lies in
studying the trajectory of human migration, especially as it relates to
resource changes and changes in the environment. Hence his
interest in space settlement.

James participated in major field excavations at the medieval
fortress Schloss Wyzburg, Weisbach, Germany, and the
Tanginak Springs site, Kodiak, Alaska. He trained
park staff in Cultural Resource Management and
anthropological/archaeological field methods at the
Jiuzhaigou National Park, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China.
He participated in the
Kuril Biocomplexity Project which was ship
based field
research throughout the Kuril Islands, Russian Far East.

James earned an Associates of Arts from the Seattle Central Community
College in 2002, earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in Anthropology cum laude and with
Distinction from the University of Washington in 2004, a Master’s of
Arts in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2005, and is
in enrolled in the PhD program in Anthropology at the
University of
Washington.